Posted on 09/23/2007 7:59:32 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I think the proper question should be Is Human caused Global Warming a myth? The planet is in a warming cycle as opposed to a couple of centuries ago.
Freep early Freep often.
Frankly, given all the agenda driven observation that is going on, I am not even willing to concede this point anymore.
A poll records opinion. Myth or fact is established from evidence. This poll may show how the politics are turning, but...
Done. 52-48 There is a broad consensus that Global Warming is a myth
Global warming isn’t a myth however the opinion that American citizens and businesses that liberals like to blame it on is most definitely a myth. Clear cutting of land on the African continent as well as the Amazon basin for farming and devlopment along with natural environmental cycles may have far more impact then auto or industry emissions !!!
It should be
Is man the cause of Global Warming? The answer to that is more assuredly not.
All the planets around us show signs of increasing warming. Since they all show the signs of warming that would indicate it is the Sun, not man, that is causing the warming of the earth
I don’t buy jack that warming is occuring at all, not any more than during the dustbowl and similar times. Not even as warm as whatever this medieval warming period was.
Exactly.
The data commonly used to indicate that we are warming omits the coldest stations of the former Soviet Union. They quit operating after the breakup because the employees were not paid. The warming proponents know this is true, but dishonestly ignore it.
Go to Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine's site to get the full truth.
Yes, GW is a myth. Far more of the earth is cooling than warming.
I think I agree; not knowing much about it. The question is not, as usual, a fair one.
Neither am I. The concept that the climate is not even allowed to change, even though it always has, is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Until we can have accurate, standardized temperature readings, from 5,000+ standardized gauges equally dispersed around the globe, over a 100+ year period, I have absolutely no faith in such speculations, and even less concern about it.
They need to relocate all of the temperature measuring sites that are located near trash born barrels and other like (warm) sites.
Then we could have a real debate on what temps might be doing.
“The data commonly used to indicate that we are warming omits the coldest stations of the former Soviet Union. They quit operating after the breakup because the employees were not paid. The warming proponents know this is true, but dishonestly ignore it.”
I think global warming is real, but not human induced.
Check this out:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
Sorta makes ya think, don’t it?
The Poll question is meaningless, but most of the sheeple out there will never realize it.
Pointed out in many posts that I am a geology student and very interested in the most recent ice age and can say that it hasn’t officaly ended as we still have glaciers and ice sheets covering part of the globe.
U.S. News and World Report had a little snippet concerning coal mine fires. China has like 1000 times more tons of coal on fire (in the ground still) than the U.S. The greenhouse gases produces by these fires exceeds the Industrial and Auto emissions of the U.S.
Just saying, that's what I've read concerning this latest claim.
Not saying I'm disagreeing with this russian guy, because some of those factors being claimed as possible explanations are also factors that could explain climate change on earth. ( and, in fact, do explain some of that change. )
Things like orbit, (apogee and perigee) planetary tilt and wobble, etc..
Science knows full well these things affect our planet's weather and climate.
Mars has a more eccentric orbit than earth, but that would not fully account in my opinion.
Also, Mars has a more pronounced tilt and wobble, which would help explain some change, but only the extremes being somewhat more pronounced.
So, where do we separate apples from oranges?
I'm not sure I can make that distinction yet.
Maybe in another 100 years or so we'll be able to speak with a little more authority.
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